Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-12-09


soon be again IN the throcs Of congress.
sional session. The railroad, will have
some biz schcincS here this winter. and
money will flow like water number
of attempts will he made tr amend the
interstate commerce law, and every effort
will Be used to stop the postal telegraph
schemes. Jay Gould and the Western
Union Will du their best t. protect their
property, ana Il prosperous season is Mt
hand for every one.
In the meantime the clt .D6yi~ts are
seen about the Washington hotels, and
the claimants who have bccrl hanging on
by their eyclidS for the past ten years are
having their periodical Frightening UP.
This occurs always At the lirst of Il session,
and these characters are 80 strange and
varied that it IS worth while - describe
them.
One old man came here wheI hs hair
was black, his step was firm and Ee had
$40, 900 to his credit, Now, the $4,000
has gone his hair has turned - frosted
silver anl his beard is o. white as the
driven suuw His laugh has uecomo
sneer. and he goes about the hotels here
in q ragged oyercnAt, pcrpc.Uaily warm
ing his ungloycd hands By holding them
in the side pockets Of this garment. Ills
plump features a,e wrinklcl uli III the
lirht has rDne ont Of his cold Nluc owes.
lie has $500 600 worth of cof.ou Claims.
and at the beginning of every congress he
feels like y millionaire AND think. me viii
surely get his money.
Another cctton claimant = 4 fall. thin
man, with u surprisingly red nose lie is
u man of One culture, and can talk the
classics with q college professor lie
quotes Cicero and Virgil and has II great
admiration for julius Caesar. lie has had
an init mate arnuajntanca with the lending
mon of tbr solItl. and GAN tell stories bv
the hour Of ,hr LEADING generals of the
Confedcra,, army. He was a member of
that army ,nl when he came tn Wash.
inpton he WA, sleek and well Off His
claim has never been granted and he i,
now saedy md soI
Billy Nctiarrnbn, is back IN All his
clort. and he ha, AS mich vitality n,
when he ,.,.n. hrra l,atnr, tn. war :,
prescott. III, claim 10 the uuicksiIver
mine. Of .A,.t. II, WA, 4 yol,ur Irish
man. living in san Francisc.. when he
bourht tnj, hnd of 4 l.adi,., Mexican
Other pur,ir, DISPUTED his til, and GO,
hold Of IL. Duick>i!vrr mime, we're dis.
covered rppu il. and il l..c.mc Mt once
worth million. NcCarrehou came +,
Wa4hins,on to yet what he called his
rights He worked for them nv fair
mean, nui Ay fnul. He talked and used
the ordinary methods OF lobbying. and it
has ls.ru Churprd time and apoin that
LEADING statesmen haye accented money
from Inn, H.. has wasted ennuoh onorrt.
TO have tnn.. n dozen fortunes lie has
wasted. also, =. fortune which he had
made in san Frnnciscn. md which he
brought To WASHINGTON. II. is still! how
,,-,r ,,-,.II .Iu,,,o.l Co.,.
so muci. with statesmen. has gotten a.
look like one. lie is as straight asa lake
Superior oak. Ills rlossy bl,ck hair has
turned tn an iron gray. but his strn i ,s
firm as that of a bow. He knows every
one, and the man is unknown who doe,
not know him. He ,tir hopes for His
claim. and he tells me ha is confident thar
he will pu,l it to u successful ;,sue ,li,r-
ing the coming congress-.
Another character whom The Daw ron.
grcssmep are greeting as they come in or
[ should say. who il Crcatiag ALI the new
congressman and irving to get all he can
out of them, is a glib Vircinian. who i, a
genius in his WAY. He rri,src, in the
title OF "judgr," signs himself HiuJpc"
on the hotel registers. and talks of The
time when he was in the djplonatic sorry.
ice of the United States. lie i, not y tan
man, bat hc - q Remarkably bright one
He dresses well when he can afford it. nnI
manages to keen IN a n,od nDDeeroncn
upon very syail capitas AT one time
it is said he WAS appointed consul +,
Zanzibar. and be left Washicrton fo, his |
post. He came back six months later
saving she had cruia,i all through tha |
Pacific ocean and he coudat lind the =
. place anvwhe-erp
IT. was durtpo this trfn th,t .;,o ou,r,i |
heroic deed OF his lie occlupd. An |
English pohlemap. with A f,kr voun., |
daughter. was on one OF the shios on |
which he travelled, A storm came tinenJ |
the hurricane rolled the yO.,n0 riri into |
the brlny deep. Our Virginia '.iudra,,
was standing near bv as the wind swept |
her away, and with a sn-ln, he iumnaI |
into the water beside her. lie crashed
her dress with his teeth and kept HmseY
ON the waves until tha Iifalo.t hra,@r,,t
the two again into the vessel The Enc
lish nobleman could not express his graf.
tude, and be promised TO remem,.sT tha